Parade's End
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Parade's End, a tetralogy by F. M.
Ford, now known under this collective title, but originally published as
Some Do Not … (1924),
No More Parades (1925),
A Man Could Stand Up (1926), and
Last Post (1928).
The hero is Christopher Tietjens of Groby, a Tory Yorkshire squire married to the neurotic, beautiful, tormenting, unfaithful Catholic, Sylvia. In the first volume Christopher agrees to take back his wife and to conceal her adultery; meanwhile he himself falls in love with a young suffragette schoolteacher, Valentine Wannop. The next two volumes cover his wartime experiences and his resolution, on Armistice Day, to leave Sylvia and make Valentine his mistress. In
Last Post Valentine is pregnant, Christopher is making his living by restoring antiques, and his older brother Mark is dying; Sylvia eventually agrees to divorce Christopher. The subject of the novel appears to be the breakdown of the accepted standards of the old world and the necessary emergence of a new order.
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THE ARTIST AND THE MATHEMATICIAN: THE STORY OF NICOLAS BOURBAKI, THE GENIUS MATHEMATICIAN WHO NEVER EXISTED
Magazine article from: Mathematics and Computer Education; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...MATHEMATICIAN: THE STORY OF NICOLAS BOURBAKI, THE GENIUS MATHEMATICIAN WHO...1-56025-931-0 While Nicolas Bourbaki is long dead (or in another...mathematics, created the character of Nicolas Bourbaki, including his origin and background...
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The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Science News; 10/21/2006; 534 words
; ...MATHEMATICIAN: The Story of NIcolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who...by the work of a man known as Nicolas Bourbaki. But Bourbaki never existed...collectively became known as Nicolas Bourbaki, complete with an invented...
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Proof; A biography about a made-up mathematician whose influence went beyond numbers.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/15/2006; ; 700+ words
; THE ARTIST AND THE MATHEMATICIAN The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed By Amir D. Aczel Thunder's Mouth. 239 pp. $23.95 Nicolas Bourbaki did not exist. He was dreamt up by a playful clique...
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The Case of the Disappearing Mathematician
Transcript from: Talk of the Nation (NPR); 11/17/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...what he or she knows about Nicolas Bourbaki. And you're in for a long...mathematician by the name of Nicolas Bourbaki set out to unify and redefine...this ointment, and that is Nicolas Bourbaki never existed. He was all a...
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The birth of structuralism
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 7/7/2007; 700+ words
; ...is subtitled 'The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who...end with a 'But just who was Nicolas Bourbaki?' teaser, slightly annoyingly...joint work under the pseudonym Nicolas Bourbaki. All of which does make for...
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Book World; Scientific Creation
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/14/1995; ; 700+ words
; THE BOURBAKI GAMBIT By Carl Djerassi University of...Diana Doyle-Ditmus early in "The Bourbaki Gambit," "which is an intrinsic part...papers collectively under the pseudonym Nicolas Bourbaki, Weiss dreams of creating a fictional...
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Mathematician Andre Weil Dies; Rewrote Foundations of His Field; Theorist's Work Influenced Particle Physics, Cryptography
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/12/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...spent years shielding their identities by publishing under the pseudonym of Nicolas Bourbaki. In a 1994 Scientific American profile of Weil, John Horgan wrote that Bourbaki produced "monumental treatises that brought order and unity to mathematics...
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Random walk and life philosophy.
Magazine article from: American Economist; 9/22/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...lived at the Ecole Normale were rich in revelations. Nicolas Bourbaki was beginning to publish his Elements de Mathematique...levels of abstraction and of purity to which the work of Bourbaki was raising mathematics had won a respect that was...
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meticulous teacher had inspired revival of mathematics in france.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 8/25/2008; 560 words
; ...rigorously write down the foundations of mathematics; the group published papers under the pseudonym Nicolas Bourbaki. Cartan said the Bourbaki group was the beginning of a mathematical renewal. Henri Cartan was born in 1904, the son of Elie...
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Lion Hunting & Other Mathematical Pursuits: A Collection of Mathematics, Verse, and Stories by Ralph P. Boas, Jr.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Smarandache Notions Journal; 1/1/2000; 700+ words
; ...intended meaning. Most mathematicians have heard of Nicolas Bourbaki, the mathematical polyglot who is in fact a pseudonym...friends also "arranged" for a wedding between Betti Bourbaki and H. Petard and duly announced the upcoming event...
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Bourbaki, Nicolas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Bourbaki, Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym of an influential group of mathematicians...done so, although with some reluctance. The origin of the name Nicolas Bourbaki is obscure. The use of a collective pseudonym was presumably...
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Nicolas Bourbaki
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nicolas Bourbaki pseudonym under which a group of 20th...Prussian War. The principal aim of the Bourbaki group ( L'Association des Collaborateurs de Nicolas Bourbaki ) is to provide a solid foundation...
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Scilicet
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...designed to evaluate students as they advanced from being analysands to becoming analysts. He also made reference to "Nicolas Bourbaki," the pen name that an influential group of French mathematicians lent to their collective work beginning in the...
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Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...maverick in the field of mathematics, he is uncomfortable with the rigorously pure logical analysis prescribed by Nicolas Bourbaki and relies instead on his talent for visualizing natural phenomena. A pioneer of chaos theory , he conceived, developed...
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Élie Joseph Cartan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Henri Cartan , 1904-2008, was also a mathematician, and was one of the founding members of the Bourbaki group (see Bourbaki, Nicolas ), which sought to establish a rigorous foundation for modern mathematics. Cartan was noted especially...
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